Just finished the Clark and Chalmers article 'The Extended Mind', gosh.... was that hard going.
Not sure I can agree with them Otto's notebook, and his reliance on it, proves that his mind has extended outside of his skull to include the notebook. They keep talking about cognitive processes, but all of their examples, I would ague, are not actually a cognitive process. The notebook provides facts, as the memory does, but does not compute or make decisions, therefore I would ague that it is not part of the cognitive process, it is just a tool employed by the person.
Far better was the YouTube video, 'The Extended Mind' with Rupert Sheldrake. far more thought provoking ideas, although there was much there that I instinctively disagree with, but need to think much more about.
This has been a bit of a odd book, sometimes interesting, sometimes unintelligible, sometimes just odd..... but must get through the last chapter and on to writing the TMA.
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